 Since the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer of fiction among us has been permitted to depict, to his utmost power, a MAN.  The History of Pendennisvon William Makepeace Thackeray - 1850 - 392 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Dickens - 1996 - 916 Seiten
...voices something that DC both desires and fears. Thackeray, in the Preface to Pendennis, lamented that 'since the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer...of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to utmost power a MAN,' but Thackeray also showed himself to belong to that prudish formation when he... | |
 | Walter F. Greiner, Fritz Kemmler - 1997 - 282 Seiten
...preface to 'Pendennis,' where Thackeray admits that 'since the author of "Tom Jones" was buried 25 no writer of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to his utmost power a man,' on penalty, be it understood, of a temporary diminution of receipts. If this be not a tradesman's attitude,... | |
 | Bouwe Postmus - 2001 - 336 Seiten
...contribution to the debate on censorship in 1884, he was to invoke Thackeray's statement on Fielding, that, "Since the author of Tom Jones was buried no writer of fiction among us has been able to depict to his utmost power a man".12 Gissing dissociated himself from the excesses of Naturalism... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1851 - 726 Seiten
...educst«! men — even these we cannot show as tlu-y are. with the notorious foibles and seltishness of their lives and their education. Since the author...was buried, no writer of fiction among us has been permit ted to depict to his utmost power a MAN. We must drape him, and give him a certain conventional... | |
 | 1906 - 1148 Seiten
...Roscoe's Edition, with George Cruikslmnk's Illustrations. 2 vols. 1 Since the author of Tom Joiie.* was buried, no writer of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to the utmost a MAN.' — 3fr. T?iact«rai/, in fftc Preface to ' Pendennis.' AMELIA. Roscoe's Edition,... | |
 | 1909 - 1230 Seiten
...HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING. Roscoe'g Edition, with George Cruikshank's Illustrations. 2 vols. 1 Since the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer of fiction among u? has be«n permitted to depict to the utmost a MAS.' — Mr. Thackeray, m tlie Preface to ' Pfiid^mu:.'... | |
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